A chasm is emerging, particularly among parents, over how to deal with Covid risk in New York
There is a new, and presumably temporary, pastime in New York, which is to list the ways in which the city is back. Exhibit one: calling your favourite neighbourhood restaurant for a table and being told, flatly: “We can get you in at 5pm or 9pm.” Exhibit two: below 14th Street, queues round the block to get into a tiny space for the privilege of paying $25 for a double gin and tonic. And exhibit three: an assertion by the city’s major corporations, and after 18 months of apparent humility in the face of employee distress, that staff need to get their asses back in the office.
This week, Morgan Stanley became the latest company in the city to lift pandemic restrictions on in-person work, providing employees and visitors to its offices are vaccinated. This is, increasingly, a requirement by the city’s biggest private employers; earlier this month, Goldman Sachs announced that employees would have to be vaccinated to enter its buildings, while JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have asked staff to provide their vaccine status on a voluntary basis, prior to what they hope will be a majority return to the office.
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